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Wessells, Michael B.; And Others – 1979
Problems encountered in the first seven years of operation of the Interlibrary Delivery System (IDS) for the transport of interlibrary loan materials among libraries in Pennsylvania prompted this study of present delivery at the local and state levels, with the objectives of evaluating benefits, costs, routing, funding, and governance of delivery…
Descriptors: Interlibrary Loans, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Library Services
Download full textAlessi, Dana L. – 1976
This study evaluates contract services in reference and printed materials of the Maryland Interlibrary Organization (MILO)-Central (a network of public, county, and academic libraries) as performed by the County Services Department. Procedures and record-keeping processes--i.e., organization, basic operations, and request volume--are analyzed from…
Descriptors: Interlibrary Loans, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Program Evaluation
Rouse, Sandra H. – 1978
A case study of the Suburban Library System (SLS) was conducted by applying an analytical library network model to data collected during March 1978. Models are developed for describing the intralibrary processing activities encountered at SLS and the other resource libraries in this case study. Alternative routing policies for referring requests…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Interlibrary Loans, Libraries
Peer reviewedOrgren, Carl F.; Olson, Barbara J. – RQ, 1976
Describes an evaluation of Iowa's statewide teletype reference service operated primarily by library school students. (PF)
Descriptors: Information Networks, Interlibrary Loans, Library Networks, Library Services
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Library Development. – 1989
A task force was appointed to insure that New York State's health information service programs were operating optimally. The task force was charged to review: (1) the effectiveness of the guidelines and assessment form as published in the "Manual for Assessing the Quality of Health Sciences Libraries in Hospitals"; (2) the present…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Interlibrary Loans, Library Networks, Library Services
Palmer, Richard – 1974
The Ohio State Library developed a TWX Interlibrary Loan (TWXIL) pilot project in 1971 in order to: (1) produce information that would be helpful in the design and operation of a reference and information network, and (2) produce improvements in library services and sharing of existing resources through the strengthening and limited extension of…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Information Services, Interlibrary Loans, Library Cooperation
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., Los Angeles, CA. – 1975
An extensive study was conducted to determine whether California's Public Library Services Act had succeeded in its goal of improving and extending library service through the establishment and funding of library systems. The comprehensive study involved field interviews at all 20 systems; a review of system documents; a survey of reference…
Descriptors: Costs, Financial Support, Futures (of Society), Guidelines
